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1) What are the main characteristics behind countries such as China, India or Viet Nam in terms of their trade and industrialization policies?

2) Turkey produces more than 80 percent of the hazelnuts in the world. Explain how an increase in hazelnut production, say due to favorable climate conditions, may in fact make Turkey worse off. What would your suggestions be in this case?

3) Why do import substitution industrialization policies lead to different outcomes in different developing countries?

4) What are the similarities and differences between Douglass North and Acemoglu & Robinson approach to the role of institutions on economic growth and development?

5) What are the mechanisms that lead to inefficient government expenditures in countries with high ethnic fragmentation? Does fiscal decentralization have the potential to alleviate these inefficiencies?

6) Why do types foreign bribery tend to differ between developed and developing countries?

7) What can you say about the relationship between corruption and foreign aid?

8) Why do government officials have incentives to increase the red tape and ambiguity in the enforcement of laws?

9) Why do people that live in ethnically heterogeneous places have higher corruption perception?

10) Describe the economic and political environments where corruption promotes short-run growth.

11) Under which conditions does informal economy have positive effects in a developing country?

12) What may be your policy proposals to prevent rural-urban migration?

13) Describe the market failures that we see in education and health.

14) Why do we have low schooling rates in African countries although the returns to education are the highest among the developing countries?

15) What are the policies that work to reduce child labor?

16) Why do we see a stronger relationship between wages and heights of males in developing countries while we do not see the same robust relationship in developed countries?